Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Does Attractiveness Lead to or Follow From Occupational Success? Findings From German Associational Football

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Does Attractiveness Lead to or Follow From Occupational Success? Findings From German Associational Football. Henk Erik Meier, Michael Mutz....

It has been commonly believed that information in short-term memory (STM) is maintained in persistent delay-period spiking activity; experiments have revealed that information in STM can be maintained in neural passive states

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Reevaluating the Role of Persistent Neural Activity in Short-Term Memory. Nicolas Y. Masse, Matthew C. Rosen, David J. Freedman. Trends in C...

The Origin of Our Modern Concept of Depression—The History of Melancholia From 1780-1880: A Review

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The Origin of Our Modern Concept of Depression—The History of Melancholia From 1780-1880: A Review. Kenneth S. Kendler. JAMA Psychiatry, Jan...

Online perspective-taking experiments have demonstrated great potential in reducing prejudice towards disadvantaged groups, but had no meaningful causal effect on social welfare attitudes

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Bor, Alexander, and Gábor Simonovits. 2020. “Empathy, Deservingness, and Preferences for Welfare Assistance: A Large-scale Online Perspectiv...

What We Owe to Family: Agents who helped a stranger were judged as more morally good & trustworthy than those who helped kin, but agents who helped a stranger instead of kin were judged as less morally good & trustworthy

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What We Owe to Family: The Impact of Special Obligations on Moral Judgment. Ryan M. McManus, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Liane Young. Psychological ...

Male bowerbirds add berries to their bowers to increase attractiveness to choosy mates; when berries are added artificially, increased intrasexual aggression in the form of bower destructions by neighbouring rivals occur

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From 2002... Bower decorations attract females but provoke other male spotted bowerbirds: bower owners resolve this trade-off. Joah Robert M...

Germ theory, long before it led to medical treatments, drove down mortality rates by revolutionizing sanitation and hygiene

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Draining the swamp. Jason Crawford. The Roots of Progress, Jan 28. https://rootsofprogress.org/draining-the-swamp Excerpts (the original li...
Tuesday, January 28, 2020

How many electric vehicles can the current Australian electricity grid support? Current grid can support EVs at 5–10% penetration under uncontrolled charging

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How many electric vehicles can the current Australian electricity grid support?, Li and Lenzen, International Journal of Electrical Power ...

Immersive virtual reality: Het. men rated the female avatar’s touch as more appropriate & erogenous, while het. women rated female & male touches as equally appropriate (the latter being most erogenous)

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Fusaro, Martina, Matteo Lisi, Gaetano Tieri, and Salvatore M. Aglioti. 2020. “Touched by Vision: How Heterosexual, Gay, and Lesbian People R...

From 2018... The First Ejaculation: A Male Pubertal Milestone Comparable to Menarche?

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From 2018... The First Ejaculation: A Male Pubertal Milestone Comparable to Menarche? Jordan A. Chad. The Journal of Sex Research, Volume 57...

Hormonal contraceptive use and subjective sleep reports in women: An online survey

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Hormonal contraceptive use and subjective sleep reports in women: An online survey. Andréia Gomes Bezerra  Monica Levy Andersen  Gabriel Nat...

Individual & Joint Pornography Use Among Romantic Couples: Partner knowledge of use had little direct association with well-being, but unknown individual use may be associated with less sexual, but more relationship, satisfaction

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Behind Closed Doors: Individual and Joint Pornography Use Among Romantic Couples. Brian J. Willoughby & Nathan D. Leonhardt. The Journal...

Norway: The higher risk of childlessness was associated with the highest intelligence score, & and this effect was mediated by whether participants had ever been in a relationship by their late twenties

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Does Intelligence Predict Childlessness in Men? An Analysis of the Direct and Indirect Associations Between Intelligence and Childlessness i...

Widespread Gray Matter Gain 4-6 Weeks After Giving Birth: A restoration of brain tissue or a substantial brain reorganization, possibly to accommodate a multi-faceted repertoire of complex behaviors associated to being a mother

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From Baby Brain to Mommy Brain: Widespread Gray Matter Gain After Giving Birth. Eileen Luders et al. Cortex, January 28 2020. https://doi.or...

How Large Are Gender Differences in Toy Preferences? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Toy Preference Research

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How Large Are Gender Differences in Toy Preferences? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Toy Preference Research. Jac T. M. Davis &...